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Engineering new defective phases of UiO family metal-organic frameworks with water (2019)
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Firth, F. C. N., Cliffe, M. J., Vulpe, D., Aragones-Anglada, M., Moghadam, P. Z., Fairen-Jimenez, D., …Grey, C. P. (2019). Engineering new defective phases of UiO family metal-organic frameworks with water. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7(13), 7459-7469. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8TA10682G

© The Royal Society of Chemistry. As defects significantly affect the properties of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)—from changing their mechanical properties to enhancing their catalytic ability—obtaining synthetic control over defects is essential t... Read More about Engineering new defective phases of UiO family metal-organic frameworks with water.

Synthesis and characterisation of rylene diimide dimers using molecular handcuffs (2019)
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Yang, L., Langer, P., Davies, E. S., Baldoni, M., Wickham, K., Besley, N. A., …Champness, N. R. (2019). Synthesis and characterisation of rylene diimide dimers using molecular handcuffs. Chemical Science, 10(13), 3723-3732. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9sc00167k

A strategy for positioning, and loosely connecting, molecules in close proximity using mechanically interlocked handcuffs is described. The strategy is demonstrated using rylene diimides, creating dimeric structures in which two components are linked... Read More about Synthesis and characterisation of rylene diimide dimers using molecular handcuffs.

A Brønsted ligand molecular switch with five accessible states (2019)
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Shiga, T., Saiki, R., Akiyama, L., Kumai, R., Natke, D., Renz, F., …Oshio, H. (2019). A Brønsted ligand molecular switch with five accessible states. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58(17), 5658-5662. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201900909

A mononuclear Fe(II) complex, prepared with a Brønsted diacid ligand, H2L (H2L = 2-[5-phenyl-1H-pyrazole-3-yl] 6benzimidazole pyridine), shows switchable physical properties and was isolated in five different electronic states. The spin crossover (SC... Read More about A Brønsted ligand molecular switch with five accessible states.

Complexity surrounding an apparently simple Fermi resonance in p-fluorotoluene revealed using two-dimensional laser-induced fluorescence (2D-LIF) spectroscopy (2019)
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Kemp, D. J., Whalley, L. E., Gardner, A. M., Tuttle, W. D., Warner, L. G., & Wright, T. G. (2019). Complexity surrounding an apparently simple Fermi resonance in p-fluorotoluene revealed using two-dimensional laser-induced fluorescence (2D-LIF) spectroscopy. Journal of Chemical Physics, 150(6), 064306/1-064306/14. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5083682

Two-dimensional laser-induced fluorescence (2D-LIF) spectroscopy is a powerful tool allowing overlapped features in an electronic spectrum to be separated, and interactions between vibrations and torsions to be identified. Here the technique is emplo... Read More about Complexity surrounding an apparently simple Fermi resonance in p-fluorotoluene revealed using two-dimensional laser-induced fluorescence (2D-LIF) spectroscopy.

Transcriptome, proteome and draft genome of Euglena gracilis (2019)
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Ebenezer, T. E., Zoltner, M., Burrell, A., Nenarokova, A., Novák Vanclová, A. M. G., Prasad, B., …Field, M. C. (2019). Transcriptome, proteome and draft genome of Euglena gracilis. BMC Biology, 17(1), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-019-0626-8

Background
Photosynthetic euglenids are major contributors to fresh water ecosystems. Euglena gracilis in particular has noted metabolic flexibility, reflected by an ability to thrive in a range of harsh environments. E. gracilis has been a popular... Read More about Transcriptome, proteome and draft genome of Euglena gracilis.

Three dimensional nanoscale analysis reveals aperiodic mesopores in a covalent organic framework and conjugated microporous polymer (2019)
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Stoppiello, C. T., Isla, H., Martínez-Abadía, M., Fay, M. W., Parmenter, C. D. J., Roe, M. J., …Khlobystov, A. N. (2019). Three dimensional nanoscale analysis reveals aperiodic mesopores in a covalent organic framework and conjugated microporous polymer. Nanoscale, 11(6), 2848-2854. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8nr10086a

The integrated analytical approach developed in this study offers a powerful methodology for the structural characterization of complex molecular nanomaterials. Structures of a covalent organic framework based on boronate esters (COF-5) and a conjuga... Read More about Three dimensional nanoscale analysis reveals aperiodic mesopores in a covalent organic framework and conjugated microporous polymer.

Ion exchange and binding in selenium remediation materials using DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy (2019)
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Mais, M., Torroba, J., Barrow, N. S., Paul, S., & Titman, J. J. (2019). Ion exchange and binding in selenium remediation materials using DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, 98, 19-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2019.01.004

Selenate-loaded selenium water remediation materials based on polymer fibres have been investigated by dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) enhanced solid-state NMR. For carbon-13 a significant reduction in experiment time is obtained with DNP even whe... Read More about Ion exchange and binding in selenium remediation materials using DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy.

Holistic engineering of Cal-A lipase chain-length selectivity identifies triglyceride binding hot-spot (2019)
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Rousseau, O., Quaglia, D., Alejaldre, L., Ouadhi, S., & Pelletier, J. N. (2019). Holistic engineering of Cal-A lipase chain-length selectivity identifies triglyceride binding hot-spot. PLoS ONE, 14(1), Article e0210100. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210100

Through the application of a region-focused saturation mutagenesis and randomization approach, protein engineering of the Cal-A enzyme was undertaken with the goal of conferring new triglyceride selectivity. Little is known about the mode of triglyce... Read More about Holistic engineering of Cal-A lipase chain-length selectivity identifies triglyceride binding hot-spot.

Monitoring morphology evolution within block copolymer microparticles during dispersion polymerisation in supercritical carbon dioxide: a high pressure SAXS study (2019)
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Alauhdin, M., Bennett, T. M., He, G., Bassett, S. P., Portale, G., Bras, W., …Howdle, S. M. (2019). Monitoring morphology evolution within block copolymer microparticles during dispersion polymerisation in supercritical carbon dioxide: a high pressure SAXS study. Polymer Chemistry, 10(7), 860-871. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8py01578c

Reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) dispersion polymerisation in supercritical carbon dioxide is an effective process for creating block copolymer microparticles with internal nanostructures. Here we report an alternative synthesi... Read More about Monitoring morphology evolution within block copolymer microparticles during dispersion polymerisation in supercritical carbon dioxide: a high pressure SAXS study.

Haloferax volcanii for biotechnology applications: challenges, current state and perspectives (2019)
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Haque, R. U., Paradisi, F., & Allers, T. (2019). Haloferax volcanii for biotechnology applications: challenges, current state and perspectives. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-019-10314-2

© 2019, The Author(s). Haloferax volcanii is an obligate halophilic archaeon with its origin in the Dead Sea. Simple laboratory culture conditions and a wide range of genetic tools have made it a model organism for studying haloarchaeal cell biology.... Read More about Haloferax volcanii for biotechnology applications: challenges, current state and perspectives.